Law Enforcement Detachments

U.S. Navy sailors assigned to a visit board search and seizure team and Coast Guardsmen assigned to the Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachment
U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Coast Guard, Tactical Law Enforcement emblem
TACLET Sniper Airborne use of force

Law Enforcement Detachments or LEDETs are specialized, deployable maritime law enforcement teams of the United States Coast Guard. First established in 1982, their primary mission is to deploy aboard U.S. and allied naval vessels to conduct counter-drug operations and support maritime law enforcement, interdiction, or security operations. LEDETs are the operational elements of the Coast Guard’s two Tactical Law Enforcement Teams (TACLETs) which are part of the Coast Guard’s Deployable Specialized Forces (DSF).[1] As of April 2010 there are seventeen LEDETs.[2]

  1. ^ "Deployable Operations Group disbanded". Navy Times.
  2. ^ "Testimony of Admiral Thad W. Allen on the Coast Guard Fiscal Year 2011 Budget Request – Homeland Security". dhs.gov. 15 April 2010.